LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX, SHALL WE?
I wonder what my mom thinks about masturbation. Sometimes I watch these black movies and there’s always that woman who won’t stop talking about her body and sex, masturbation, periods -you know, all the topics you don’t want to discuss at the dinner table during thanksgiving. Except, I kind of do. I kind of want someone, a female adult to talk to me about these things without me cringing out of my skin, without it becoming the oh so dreaded ‘talk’. Growing up, I envied people who had great relationships with their moms. In the environment I grew up in, there were not very many of those. Not to stereotype, but most people with such relationships were girls from single mom families and/or were the only kids. The rest of us had a stronger relationship with our mothers’ slippers than the moms themselves. My earliest memory of something resembling a talk is one time, and I laugh every time I tell this, when I was walking around in my mother’s room and she asked me “ na unaosh...